Now that President Obama has canceled plans to store the nation's highly radioactive nuclear waste at the controversial Yucca Mountain site in Nevada, South Carolina community leaders are wondering if their state will become the new long-term storage solution. More...

The state Utilities Commission rejected environmental advocates' arguments that the company is building the multibillion-dollar plant in western North Carolina to sell power outside its service area. Meanwhile, the company's CEO gets a subpoena to testify in a Cliffside protester's trial. More...

The Republican from South Carolina raised $2.7 million in the latest quarter, with the race between him and his Democratic opponent on track to be one of the country's most expensive. More...

Contamination seeping from an SCE&G coal-fired power plant imperils area residents' wells and a nearby national ecological treasure -- and it's expected to come up in a court case set to begin today over whether the company should be allowed to build another ash dump at the plant. More...

W. Horace Carter received numerous threats for his reporting but pressed on -- and in 1953 the Tabor City Tribune won a groundbreaking award for shining a light on white-supremacist violence. More...

While pundits focus on Rep. Joe Wilson's checkered history on black/white relations, an even bigger factor may be Wilson's leadership in the nativist anti-immigrant movement, based in a state that has the fastest-growing Latino population in the nation. More...

Rep. Joe Wilson's heckling of President Obama wasn't his first time in the spotlight -- as a state senator in the 1990s, he emerged as one of the fiercest defenders of flying the Confederate battle flag over the South Carolina capitol, even calling the Confederate heritage "very honorable." More...

Facing calls to resign over an extramarital affair and alleged ethics violations, Gov. Mark Sanford is charged with spreading rumors that the lieutenant governor is gay. More...

The conservative Republican from South Carolina broke ranks with the Judiciary Committee's other Republicans yesterday to approve Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the high court. How much did his state's changing demographics have to do with it? More...

Thousands of low-income workers earning a minimum wage got a boost in their wages as the national minimum wage rose to $7.25. Yet, one group remains excluded -- tipped workers have a national minimum wage that has been frozen at $2.13 for 18 years. More...

As the recession deepened across the country in 2008, the nation saw a shift in its homeless populations to include more families and more rural and suburban areas. More...

Sanitation workers in Charleston, S.C. are knocking on doors to drum up support for their battle to gain union recognition. They've been learning from leaders of a historic 1969 struggle, and drawing support from students and other unions. More...

As the South Carolina governor's marriage fell apart over his Argentinian love affair, he turned for help to The Family -- a right-wing Christian religious cabal founded to oppose FDR's New Deal. Does its theory of the God-chosen leader help explain Sanford's refusal to resign? More...

More than 9 million people in the U.S. use TRICARE, a popular government-backed health plan for military families -- and nearly half of them live in Southern states where Congressional leaders vocally oppose government involvement in health care. More...

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admits that he didn't go hiking on the Appalachian trail after all: He was in Argentina, ending an affair that he says began about a year ago. Did he also end his shot at the presidency? More...

The search for the governor of South Carolina ends with the revelation that he took an undisclosed trip to Buenos Aires. The State newspaper provides a helpful timeline, but many questions remain -- including why did he go to Argentina in the dead of winter? More...

Despite the fact that the federal stimulus provides over $100 billion nationwide for education over the next two years, many schools, such as Ty'Sheoma Bethea's in Dillon, S.C., won't be seeing much improvement. More...

As the debate rages over health care reform, a new study by a group of Harvard doctors found that several major health and life-insurance companies in both the United States and overseas have nearly $4.5 billion invested in tobacco stocks. More...

The final battle over $700 million of South Carolina's stimulus aid comes to a head Wednesday as the state Supreme Court begins hearing the arguments in the cases filed by two students and the South Carolina Association of School Administrators. More...

As the hurricane season opens, officials on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts are concerned about the record number of foreclosed homes -- which when left unsecured could become sources of dangerous wind-blown debris and damage neighboring homes in already-struggling communities. More...